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New Documentary about Kenny Easterday: Man with half a body

Kenny Easterday is amazing: He is able to move without legs, shins or knees. Now they are making a documentary about his life, according to the Daily Telegraph. Time to post some video material of this remarkable guy!

From telegraph.co.uk:

Kenny Easterday, 35, was born with a rare condition called sacral agenesis which prevented his spine from developing normally. When he was six-months-old doctors amputated his legs and used part of his shinbone to complete his partially formed spine.

As a boy Kenny was offered prosthetic legs but he hated wearing them and preferred to use his hands or a skateboard to get around. “My dad pretty much taught me how to walk on my hands,” said Mr Easterday, from West Virginia, USA.

Speaking in a documentary for TLC in the USA titled The Man With Half a Body, his father said: “I just told him to walk behind his mother, because she walks like a duck so just walk like her,”

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